A sandwich at Lumpy's Diner, a restaurant in Antioch, California.
out of 100 · solid
Solid, with one move worth +27.
Leans toward a pulled pork sandwich, three of six roles, half the layers have no partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
More sweet than 90% of the catalog.
Each bar is one pillar of the score, 0 to 100. The tick marks what a sandwich at the summit needs; an amber bar is the one holding this sandwich back.
grilled artisan roll, toasted: shredded pork; homemade bbq sauce (house-made).
Worth a look: house-made: BBQ Sauce.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.2 | 60th |
| acid | 0.8 | 60th |
| fat | 1.7 | 31st |
| sweet | 1.9 | 90th |
| umami | 2.0 | 76th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.0 | n/a |
98 Balance, out of 100
The seven flavor axes of the whole sandwich, each summed across its layers. The shaded ring is the catalog's middle 80%; the small number under each axis is where this sandwich falls in the catalog. A shape that sits inside the ring is in the range most sandwiches live in; a spike past it is where this one stands apart.
What each layer brings
| Layer | Role | Flavor and texture | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| grilled artisan rollscored as Ciabatta | bread | soft chewy crusty | the frame |
| shredded porkscored as Pork | protein | fat 4 umami 4 juicy chewy tender | +44 |
| homemade bbq sauce (house-made)scored as BBQ Sauce | sauce | sweet 4 salt 2 acid 2 silky saucy | +19 |
Points: what the Sandwich Score would lose if that one layer were left out, everything else the same. A negative number means the sandwich scores higher without it. Flavor runs 0 to 5 on each axis.
Pairings
- Pork + BBQ Sauce: pit law: sweet smoke sauce on rich pork
How to raise it
- Reads as a sweet build on purpose; scored as one.
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